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This photo was created during a moment of relative "peace" (although I do remember still breathing rather heavily, yet only my IRE was aroused,) therefore you may be assured that the "trespasser" was quite stationary. You see this terribly "unwelcome interloper" and I had an intensely "decaptivating" conversation in my toddler's room during her Sunday afternoon nap.
It made like it about to crawl onto Shanna's bed when I informed it in a rather terse manner that it did NOT have reservations & besides the bed was too small for even one snake.
Before it could complete its rather "weak" argument about being a harmless rat snake, I attempted to cut-off more than its sentence. I stunned it sufficiently with the child-sized ottoman to go get the spaghetti tongs (which I still have no intention of returning to the kitchen and are still outside incidently) with which to further "squeeze" its recalcitrance.
I then took it to the carport where I finished the "job" with a "crosshatch guillotine" (i.e. a pair of scissors.) Finally, I laid the corpse on its concrete bier, and went for my camera to archive my...er...manliness!
Epilogue: How did a snake get into my little girl's room, (Insert Multiple strong Words Here!)? This is my theory. The washer-dryer alcove was placed "dead center" in my home (when it was built around 1980) making it necessary for the vent to travel through a concrete tube under the living room and out the side of the house at foundation level.
Needless-to-say, before dark a sturdy piece of wood covered the hole where a screen used to be,...but still I shook my head thinking, "Stupid! Stupid! Stupid!" :(
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would like the see more of the crack and have it more closely mirror the snake (easy for me to say as I'm not the one who's got to touch it!) -- one of my favorites this challenge
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